“The stuck and dark energy of that kind of place create a doorway, through which ‘evil’ as we call it can come in, but I learned that with the Grandmothers and the holy man around me, that door never opens.” -Sharon McErlane in Our Love is Our Power, around p. 105

I am preparing to end a vacation and go back to life as usual, but with some endings and some beginnings that await. I wanted to write about that…and then I got this quote. What is the connection?!?

Oh, I just realized what this is about for me personally – it’s a warning to keep alert and keep the Grandmothers around me like a blanket. Not to get distracted by the transitions, to keep the Grandmothers front and center no matter what.

Okay. And about endings and beginnings: well, it’s simple. If we stay close to the Divine, we simply cannot go wrong as things end and other things begin. Life is full of endings and beginnings – that is what keeps energy moving. Trying to make those endings and beginnings stop (so we can feel more comfortable and under control) creates a doorway for evil to enter.

Thank you Grandmothers! Just what I needed to hear.

Where are you trying to stop the flow of life? Stopping that river of life can create a doorway, or a tiny crack, where evil can enter. Let life flow, with the Grandmothers around you like a cozy and safe security blanket.

These Daily Obsessions are like a vitamin for the soul. Take one daily for obsessive worrying and criticizing. The Grandmothers are but one face of the Divine; substitute another if you prefer. The commentary to this Daily Obsession is only in English (sorry Nederlandstaligen!).

“During your recent trip…you anchored the Net wherever you came. … You anchored the Net. Share this information. Everyone must hear this, because every person who calls on us, does the same. They too anchor the Net of Licht and they must realize this. Wherever you are, at home or in a foreign country, whenever you call on the Divine, feel our love for you and/or let that love flow through to others, you anchor the Net of Licht. At that very moment you bless the Earth….” – The Grandmothers via Sharon McErlane in Our Love is Our Power, p. 278

Church bells, rung by hand, are clanging across the street behind me as I sit in a little café to write these words. I smile and give a friendly “Bonjour” to a lady staring at me. I think to myself, “Ha, I just anchored the Net of Light here without even trying.” Whenever I have had the opportunity to step into a church or a chapel, before taking a little hike with our kids or while walking through a mideval village, I have paused briefly to think of the Net of Light and visualize it being anchored into the ground of wherever we find ourselves.

Whenever the close quarters, long drives and relentless heat make one of us edgy and irritable, I call on the Grandmothers and the Net of Light to bring calm and peace to our little family. It doesn’t always work immediately, but as our vacation progresses we are all finding more and more calm and more and more laughter. Even my husband is suggesting that we pop into the churches we pass on our way for a moment of cool and calm. Peace and the Net of Light are clearly contaigious.

We climbed recently to a mountaintop. Up there I got a taste of what the Grandmothers mean by following the straight path that passes above the labyrinth. I looked down at the tops of the umbrellas covering the tourist restaurant’s terrace sitting far below the steep path up to this three-star panoramic view. On one side of the mountaintop, the cows were small like Lego figurines; another side was only populated by trees and a small ribbon of asphalt. I thought to myself, “It’s all a matter of perspective. From the ground, I can’t see the bees and insects busily making a living between these mountaintop flowers – but to them, these flowers are a matter of life and death. From up here, each person is but a dot, but from their perspective, their little family squabbles and the taste of their ice cream or beer means a great deal to them.” I promised myself to try to remember this mountaintop perspective the next time I started to take my everyday irritations and temptations too seriously. Even remembering it now makes me breathe deeply.

Today, visit a mountaintop in your mind, one with a 360° view. This is the view of the Grandmothers. It is important to come here regularly, and just like Jesus did, it is equally important to come down from the mountaintop too. When we bring the mountaintop view to our pedestrian lives, we become a blessing for the Earth.

These Daily Obsessions are like a vitamin for the soul. Take one daily for obsessive worrying and criticizing. The Grandmothers are but one face of the Divine; feel free to substitute another face if you prefer. For English, scroll down.

“…when she tried to meditate or pray, she couldn’t manage to concentrate enough.” – Sharon McErlane in A Call to Power, p. 114

Sometimes we are just too upset to meditate. The above passage was about a woman in a life-threatening situation, but we all have days where meditation and prayer are just impossible.

I hate to say this, but that seems to be the way life is. It seems to be part of having a body and playing this game called “come to the labyrinth of distractions called Earth and see if you can find your way back home.” Some days, the labyrinth just swallows us whole. On days like that, we forget that there is even something called ‘home’ – we forget that a state of peace, a state of connectedness even exists.

That is why I write these Daily Obsessions. Because they remind me that home is there, even when the walls of the labyrinth seem to reach to the sky. And then, without warning, just because I try to remember home and ask for help to get there, I get a taste of it again. That orients me enough to have another go in the labyrinth.

So if you can’t meditate today or some other day, don’t worry. If you truly need help, someone will come to your aid. A calming presence will find you if you just ask for help. And if they don’t come, it’s because you can handle it on your own – sometimes we need to know that we are stronger than we think.

These Daily Obsessions are like a vitamin for the soul. Take one daily for obsessive worrying and criticizing. The Grandmothers are but one face of the Divine; subsitute another if you prefer. For English, scroll down.

“I was also curious about what they called ‘effortless giving’.” – Sharon McErlane in A Call to Power, around p. 88

“When you elevate your vibration, this affects everything and everyone around you. When you do this, you become a walking prayer. Then there is nothing that you need to do or say, because your own being will say it all.” – The Grandmothers via Sharon McErlane in Our Love is Our Power, around p. 270

To become a walking prayer is indeed effortless giving. When we elevate our vibration, our simple presence around other people is like praying for them. By being ourselves in an elevated state, we create a bridge that others can cross to experience pure Divine love.

How do we elevate our vibration, then? I think the most important part is simply wanting to. Just making the choice to leave the “basement of life” is the most important step. Noticing when we are getting caught up in the labyrinth of worldy distractions, noticing that we have lost our focus on the Divine, and then saying, “Actually, I would rather be in contact with the Divine than doing my life all from my ego and my mind.” From there, we pray or connect to the Net of Light, we read the Grandmothers books or other sacred writings, we journey to the Grandmothers or meditate or do another spiritual practice that re-establishes our consciousness of the Divine.

None of those ways of elevating our vibration is difficult; in fact, life only gets truly difficult when we don’t do those things!

Today, shift your focus back to the Divine. I know I will – and if we all do this, all over the world, then everyone’s path to love will be much, much easier.

These Daily Obsessions are like a vitamin for the soul. Take one daily for obsessive worrying and criticizing. The Grandmothers are but one face of the Divine – substitute another if you prefer. Today’s Daily Obsession is only in English.

Today’s quotations are excerpted from this month’s Grandmothers newsletter, published by Sharon McErlane. See below for a link to archived newsletters and the books.

“You need a nudge to get you to dive deeper within yourself,” the Grandmothers said, “to tap you into the core of your being. We see you and notice that the world is distracting you. This distraction will lead you nowhere,” they said. “You will go round in circles if you keep on paying attention to the world. You will become lost. We believe in you,” the Grandmothers said.

I think it’s very interesting that yesterday I was talking about the need to go to our core, and here are the Grandmothers again telling us to go to the core. It is time to go inward.

“This is selfless work we are calling you to,” the Grandmothers said. “You were born for it. Why do you think you incarnated at this particular time? This is why,” they said. “You were born to love-to love and lift your planet. If you want to fulfill your destiny, call on us or on any form of the Divine you love and then step forward into this blessed work. …”

The Grandmothers tell us that we need to pass on the Empowerment and hold, hold, hold the Net of Light.

It is so very easy to get distracted. The world is a distraction-factory, pumping out distractions day and night, never stopping. The only remedy is to go inward, to go to our core, to our heart, and stay there. To obsess about the Net of Light instead of about our worries, our fantasies and the daily dramas near and far.

The Grandmothers know about these dramas – some of which are truly shocking – but they never focus on them. They tell us again and again to focus only on the Net of Light and love, love, love. Again and again they have to repeat this message because we are like little children who stop to look at every small detail while walking to school. When we get distracted, we get lost, literally lost like a child without adult guidance. And the world gets lost along with us.

Today, right now in fact, stop whatever you are doing. Shut your eyes and contact the core of your being. Peace is with you. Go into your heart, let it light with love, and take your place on the Net of Light. Simply rest there for a good while. This is what the world needs, not our “help” in the form of doing. It is for others to “do” – the members of the Grandmothers movement are here to BE, to hold, to love, to embrace.

These Daily Obsessions are like a vitamin for the soul. Take one daily for obsessive worrying and criticizing. The Grandmothers are but one face of the Divine; feel free to substitute another if you prefer. For English, scroll down.

“Each one of you must ask this question: how can I bring the message of the Grandmothers into practice, how can my life mirror this message? And as soon as you have asked this question, the next comes up: what is holding me back from bringing this message into practice now? …. [After answering that question comes the next one:] Then ask: how do I feel when I let myself be obstructed from bringing this message into practice?” – The Grandmothers via Sharon McErlane in Our Love is Our Power, around p. 285

We all do things that are not good for us, but we can’t seem to stop ourselves from doing them. The list of compulsions and addictions is endless. If something makes us feel good – or bad – we can get addicted to it.

The Grandmothers’ message is fundamentally one of freedom, peace and joy. When we live in yin power and love, life feels really, really good. In my experience, however, I have a hard time staying connected to that yin power and maintaining that good feeling in practice. (Now I hear the Grandmothers saying, “There will be challenges, of course. That is part of the fun.”)

So we all have some homework today: to get quiet, ask the above questions, and give an honest answer to each of the questions. What is the Grandmothers’ message? How can our lives mirror it? What is obstructing each of us individually from bringing the Grandmothers’ message into practice? What would it feel like to have that obstruction, that handicap, disappear?

Good luck with your homework. Let me know what you find out – if you share a comment here, then everyone will benefit from your insights (and most likely see themselves in your experience).

These Daily Obsessions are like a vitamin for the soul. Take one daily for obsessive worrying and criticizing. The Grandmothers are but one face of the Divine – feel free to subsitute another face if you prefer. For English, scroll down.

“Although these days I rarely had an attack of enormous activity, I was never peaceful and quiet. … I solemnly swore that for a while, I would ‘go slower and go deeper inside’. I made time free every day to visit the Grandmothers, to sit with them and to go deep inside myself. And of course they were right. It helped.” – Sharon McErlane in Our Love is Our Power, around p. 340

All around me, I hear people saying “I don’t have enough time” and “Even when I want to slow down, it seems that I can’t”. Even women who don’t work full time say that they don’t have enough time. My retired father-in-law says he has less time now that he is retired. How can this be?

I asked the Grandmothers for a message about “not enough time” and they gave me the above quotation. Then I went to “sit with the Grandmothers and go deep inside myself”. This was their answer to “I don’t have enough time” and “I can’t seem to slow down”:

They showed me how our intellectual ideas limit us. We cut ourselves off from the Source because we think we have it all figured out. We think, “If I just think hard enough about my problem, I will be able to get in control and remain in control.” This may work for short periods, but mostly it just creates a great deal of stress.

We have forgotten what it is like to lose ourselves in the moment, to expand beyond the limits of the earthly plane and to experience our true size, which is far, far larger than the world. When we sit in the presence of the Divine (in any form – or without a form at all), time disappears and worry disappears. All is truly well. From the Divine perspective, all is well, and all has always been well, and all shall always be well. This is the only truth in the universe; the rest is earth-bound drama.

Now, that earth-bound drama can be enormously compelling at times. I don’t disagree, being a lover of drama myself. But when the curtains close on Act I, Act II or the play ends, we return to the state of “all is well” and realize that no matter what our story was, it was temporary.

The choice is yours: you can keep limiting yourself by thinking so hard, or you can visit the Grandmothers and let them help you stop thinking for a while. You can let them help you expand out to the state of “all is well”, and ask them to help you bring a tiny bit of that experience back to your daily life.

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Golden Eagle Feather

Golden eagle feathers are used in Native American ceremonies. The Grandmothers gave me the name "Golden Eagle Feather" before I knew anything about golden eagles. I'm growing into the name slowly. I offer my words here to anyone seeking love, rest and connection to the Divine.

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